British Military Current Events

[FJAG]

Hey @daftandbarmy!

Airborne Army regiment face being sent into battle without parachutes

The future of the legendary 'Paras' could be under threat from cost-cutting measures, which astonishingly include being forced to ditch their parachutes, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[daftandbarmy]

Hey @daftandbarmy!

Residual colonial commitments will ensure that there will always be some kind of a long range parachute capability maintained.

When I joined, just before the Falklands War, they said the same thing: no more parachuting! After the war there was a massive investment in strategic parachute ops resulting in the stand up of 5 AB Bde.

The reality is that the UK must retain a rapidly deployable parachute force for SPE/NEO ops. The Sudan situation in 2023 almost resulted in the brigade going in, for example.

The spectre of UK nationals being chopped up into pieces on TV in a random 3rd world country could bring down a government pretty quickly, as well as being unhealthy for those UK passport holders.

UK completes largest and longest Western evacuation from Sudan

The UK government has concluded its successful evacuation operation and announced that it will provide £5 million of lifesaving aid to people fleeing Sudan.

www.gov.uk

 

[FJAG]

My reading between the lines is that the RAF is saying that we just don't want to play silly-bugger with you folks anymore: it's expensive, it takes airplanes away from actual valuable work and quite frankly its boring stuff in peacetime which will probably kill us and our very expensive aircraft if we have to do it for real.

 

[daftandbarmy]

My reading between the lines is that the RAF is saying that we just don't want to play silly-bugger with you folks anymore: it's expensive, it takes airplanes away from actual valuable work and quite frankly its boring stuff in peacetime which will probably kill us and our very expensive aircraft if we have to do it for real.

The RAF is the reason why we always tried to get Fleet Air Arm support whenever possible